Description
How can we understand leadership today?
This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practised and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.
An invaluable reference tool, this book offers insight into issues such as:
* Are leaders born or made?
* Authoritarian versus participative leadership
* The psychology of leaders and followers
* Leadership development
* Leadership styles, skills and functions
* Leadership in practice
This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.
About the Author
Jonathan Gosling is Emeritus Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter, UK, where he directed the Centre for Leadership Studies for 12 years. He is now an independent academic consulting through his company Pelumbra.com, a member of the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre, and Lead Faculty with the Forward Institute promoting responsible leadership in government, NGOs and business. He has designed and delivered many in-company executive development programs for corporations and International agencies. He is currently researching and assisting the leadership of malaria elimination programs, of social-value oriented business-models, sustainable supply chains in China, and of professional organizations (consultancies, universities, health research, etc.). He has written a series of papers on the relevance of philosophy to leading and managing, and books on well-known national heroes. His work is published in journals such as Leadership, Organization, Business Ethics and Harvard Business Review,. His books with Sage include Key Concepts in Leadership(2012), Napoleonic Leadership: a study in power (2015) and chapters in several Sage Handbooks such as that for Responsible Leadership and Management Education (2020). He co-founded the One Planet MBA with WWF-International and the One Planet Education Networks (OPEN) for academic and other experts. He has authored or edited 9 books, over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and a number of influential reports; chaired international conferences, institutional and programme reviews, Professorial and tenure appointments, research grant panels, and so forth. He is on the editorial boards of 6 journals, has supervised over 12 PhDs and examined many more, held visiting positions at universities in Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Slovenia and New Zealand. He represented UK Universities at the Rio+20 UN Sustainability summit. He was an early instigator of the Critical Management Studies movement, co-founder of the IMPM.org and now plays a significant role in the 'greening' of management education worldwide. He worked many years as a mediator and on other interventions inspired by psychodynamic perspectives on power and organizing. He is co-founder of Coachingourselves.com and is a keen sailor. Dr Stephanie Jones is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Maastricht School of Management, having graduated with a PhD from University College London, and a Bachelor's degree (in History) from the London School of Economics. Dr Jones has authored over 25 full-length internationally-published books on business and management - three of them with Professor Jonathan Gosling. She teaches MBA students across the world, especially courses on leadership, culture and change. Her teaching locations include Kuwait, Egypt, Yemen, China, Vietnam, Peru, Surinam, Kazakhstan and several African countries. With a background managing businesses in recruitment, consulting, and training operations in China, India, the Middle East and Australia, Dr Jones gained extensive experience in the corporate sector before returning to academe a decade ago. She is still active in consulting and training. Dr Jones also supervises student theses, at Doctoral, Masters and Diploma level, assessing and evaluating theses around the world. Napoleonic Leadership: a study in power is her third book with Professor Gosling, the others being Nelson's Way and Key Concepts in Leadership.
Reviews
'Key Concepts in Leadership is an essential addition to available books on leadership. Its interdisciplinary approach, easy to read, easy to use style, while still being grounded in leadership studies, sets this book apart. It is a one-stop shop for essential concepts in leadership and will be an essential book for managers and leaders from all walks of life. Key Concepts in Leadership provides balanced insights, discussion and a wealth of information around one of the most important topics in the world today, leadership' -
Prof. Dr. Danica Purg
President IEDC-Bled School of Management
'This is not your ordinary leadership book! Gosling and colleagues provide a fascinating and brilliant new way to look at leadership that distills a century of research into an easily accessible and inherently relevant compilation of leadership styles. This volume includes the classics, such as authoritarian and participative leadership, as well as styles uniquely the authors' own, like the "chillaxed" and the "leadaholic"'
Mary Uhl-Bien, Co-Director
Institute for Innovative Leadership, College of Business Administration, US
'The idea behind this book is to present readers with an opportunity to reflect upon the different approaches to and ways of thinking about being a leader. Each leadership style is contrasted with its alternative and in the process the reader is drawn into the relevant literature and into a consideration of real leaders' experiences. This is a highly original and extremely illuminating way of introducing the field of leadership studies and encouraging people to ponder their own approach to leadership. Anyone with an interest in this field and who is drawn into a leadership role should read this book as soon as possible'
Alan Bryman
Professor of Organisational and Social Research, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781849205894
Author Jonathan Gosling
Format Paperback
Page Count 164
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 350g
